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To Create Climate and Environmental Justice, We Need Your Solutions
To Create Climate and Environmental Justice, We Need Your Solutions
It is increasingly clear that reverting this catastrophic climate crisis requires a deep systemic change to our economic, political and social structures along with the promotion of climate and environmental justice that places people and planet at the core. So what is the...
2 min
5 Times Orange Is the New Black Gets It Right on Prisoner Rights
5 Times Orange Is the New Black Gets It Right on Prisoner Rights
Out of the ashes of burning Cheetos, the new season offers lessons in democracy, compassion, and humanity.
Yessenia Funes
This Animation About The Clitoris Will Amuse and Educate
This Animation About The Clitoris Will Amuse and Educate
Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated short film, find out its unrecognized anatomy and its unknown herstory.
3 min
Exploring biracial identity and reality in America 50 years after a civil rights milestone
Exploring biracial identity and reality in America 50 years after a civil rights milestone
Anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia
Caty Borum Chattoo
How Men Continue to Interrupt Even the Most Powerful Women
How Men Continue to Interrupt Even the Most Powerful Women
The numbers do not lie: women have long been underrepresented on the United States Supreme Court. In the court’s 228-year history, only four of the 112 justices have been female. Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female justice in 1981, almost two centuries after the...
Tonja Jacobi and Dylan Schweers
Wonder Women Have Been Smashing the Patriarchy Since Classical Times
Wonder Women Have Been Smashing the Patriarchy Since Classical Times
Wonder Woman is an unsettling superhero. More so than her male counterparts, she resists easy classification: she’s neither an alien or a billionaire – nor has she been exposed to some chemical to obtain her powers. The comic books cast her as a mystery to be unravelled and...
Roberta Magnani
What Have the Conservatives Done for Women?
What Have the Conservatives Done for Women?
We have made this video to show exactly how the Conservative government has impacted women and girls since 2010. The Conservative government have shown a violent hatred towards women and non-binary people with their cuts hitting women of colour and disabled women the hardest. 
2 min
Enough Talk About Intersectionality. Let's Get on With It
Enough Talk About Intersectionality. Let's Get on With It
Feminists today are occupied by seemingly endless Twitter debates. But this is a politics of representation: our attention needs to move towards a politics of change. What are we not doing while so many of our movement's resources are being used like this?
Chitra Nagarajan
Why the Handmaid’s Tale Has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes in Trump's America
Why the Handmaid’s Tale Has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes in Trump's America
Maybe it’s because we’re starting to see bits of Gilead all around us.
Mark Rahner
Buying a Slave – the Hidden World of US/Philippines Trafficking
Buying a Slave – the Hidden World of US/Philippines Trafficking
Human trafficking is a hidden industry that brings in $150 billion in illegal profits every year. In the United States, tens of thousands are trafficked annually—the biggest clients being major hotel chains and foreign diplomats. The Philippines is one of the largest labor...
25 min
I Promise, It's Not Lame to Ask a Woman for Permission
I Promise, It's Not Lame to Ask a Woman for Permission
Six years ago, Dave Booda was accused of rape. He didn't defend himself - instead, here's what happened.
Dave Booda
A Brown Girl's Guide to Gender
A Brown Girl's Guide to Gender
A Brown Girl's Guide to Gender written and performed by Aranya Johar.
2 min
Jane Goodall - Sowing the Seeds of Hope
Jane Goodall - Sowing the Seeds of Hope
“If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.” Jane Goodall
5 min
Rosie the Riveter for the 21st Century: You Dreamed, We Drew
Rosie the Riveter for the 21st Century: You Dreamed, We Drew
YES! Magazine readers submitted their ideas for updating the classic icon. See the winning poster ideas—and download your favorites.
Jennifer Luxton
4 Essential Self-Defense Moves Every Woman Should Know
4 Essential Self-Defense Moves Every Woman Should Know
Trish Hoffman has made it her goal to teach women how to feel safe and prepared, no matter what. In the video above, she demonstrates how a woman can defend herself against an attacker in three specific scenarios.  There's no way of knowing how strong your attacker may be...
2 min
Peggy Orenstein: What Young Women Believe About Their Own Sexual Pleasure
Peggy Orenstein: What Young Women Believe About Their Own Sexual Pleasure
Why do girls feel empowered to engage in sexual activity but not to enjoy it? For three years, author Peggy Orenstein interviewed girls ages 15 to 20 about their attitudes toward and experiences of sex. She discusses the pleasure that's largely missing from their sexual...
17 min
Divide In Concord
Divide In Concord (trailer)
DIVIDE IN CONCORD is a feature-length documentary that follows the entertaining tale of banning bottled water in small town America.
2 min
What I Wish I'd Told You on International Women's Day
What I Wish I'd Told You on International Women's Day
"I'm trying to find a way to translate my experience, so you can relate, but I'm waiting... waiting for the moment you stopped listening."
6 min
How Women-Led Movements Are Redefining Power, From California to Nepal
How Women-Led Movements Are Redefining Power, From California to Nepal
In the face of corporate domination, economic injustice, and climate change, movements led by women offer a revolutionary path.
Rucha Chitnis
Childless: Why Is Society so Frightened of Women Without Children?
Childless: Why Is Society so Frightened of Women Without Children?
The proportion of women not having children before the menopause has reached a record high in the last decade. Here, women from the UK, France and Spain discuss the taboo of childlessness that they say comes from a dated societal structure - and celebrate International...
3 min
Austerity Is a Feminist Issue
Austerity Is a Feminist Issue
Women are massively more affected by budget cuts than men, says the Labour peer. They are more likely to be single parents, earn less and work part time than their male counterparts. She argues the government must replace ‘gender-neutral’ budgeting with economic policies that...
2 min
A Day Without a Women on International Women's Day
A Day Without a Women on International Women's Day
Strike for equity, justice and the human rights of women and all gender-oppressed people
FFA Staff
This Movement is Just Beginning and You Are All Part of It
This Movement is Just Beginning and You Are All Part of It
On the women's march and the series of protests happening around the world at the moment, together combining to make perhaps the largest movement in history.
4 min
Why "Man Tax" Is Actually a Brilliant Way to Fight Gender Gap
Why "Man Tax" Is Actually a Brilliant Way to Fight Gender Gap
Last week in NYC, a brave little pharmacy called Thompson Chemists in SoHo put up signs on its windows saying “All Women Customers Shop Tax Free” and “All Male Customers Are Subject To 7% Man Tax.” In reality, male customers are just being charged the
Juhea Kim
Sexism A and Sexism B
Sexism A and Sexism B
Being a feminist comedian and activist, I can say with absolute certainty that a lot of people hate me. There are times when the internet can feel like a burst drain spewing vitriol of every possible kind. Usually before I’ve even had breakfast.
Kate Smurthwaite
Is It Time to Say Goodbye to the Non-Binary in Gender?
Is It Time to Say Goodbye to the Non-Binary in Gender?
Being defined by a negative speaks more of bureaucracy than of sex or self-expression.
Sita Balani
Solving the Education Disparity Problem
Solving the Education Disparity Problem
Interns at our college designed this Solar Powered Projector to propose insight into the gender disparity in school attendance, and why boys are 20% more likely to attend class. 
8 min
Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics
Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics
In this feature-length documentary, Marilyn Waring demystifies the language of economics by defining it as a value system in which all goods and activities are related only to their monetary value. As a result, unpaid work (usually performed by women) is unrecognized while...
90 min
The Feminist Library: A Short Film
The Feminist Library: A Short Film (2016)
The Feminist Library: A Short Film was made in support of the Save the Feminist Library Campaign in London (UK), documenting a crucial moment in the library's herstory as it fights for its very survival. Shortlisted for the Women's History Network Community Prize, the film...
29 min
They Screened This Documentary to 80 Villages
They Screened This Documentary to 80 Villages (trailer)
What does it mean to stand behind girls education in some of the toughest and most backward communities in India? See how non formally educated Barefoot R&D technology innovators are solving the education disparity problem by realizing the dream of education for girls in...
2 min
Netizens: a Documentary about Women and Online Harassment
Netizens: a Documentary about Women and Online Harassment (trailer)
NETIZENS follows targets of online harassment as they confront digital abuse and strive for equality and justice online. Back the film on Kickstarter. This project will only be funded if at least $50,000 is pledged by Mon, Dec 19 2016.
4 min
What You Didn't Learn in Sex Ed
What You Didn't Learn in Sex Ed
It’s not just about sex. Sex education should be giving us the information we need to feel in control of our bodies and make informed decisions about them – but it’s failing. In episode four of Vagina Dispatches, we speak to our moms, friends and sex educators to find out...
16 min
Rising Women Rising World - Using Feminine Principles to Transform The World
Rising Women Rising World - Using Feminine Principles to Transform The World
From the incredible team who made Today I Rise - one of the most watched and loved films on this site - comes a short film documenting a conference they ran called Rising Women Rising World.
14 min
Mary Lyons Describes 'The We'
Mary Lyons Describes 'The We'
Beautiful. Listen to this. 
29 min
The Ugly Truth in Beauty Magazines
The Ugly Truth in Beauty Magazines
A shocking video about the ugly truth hidden in beauty and fashion magazines.
4 min
This Text Message Exchange Between a Mother and Daughter is Pure Gold
This Text Message Exchange Between a Mother and Daughter is Pure Gold
When Belinda Hankins got a text message from her 13-year-old daughter, who was shopping for period products, it started an exchange that will resonate with women everywhere. Enjoy.
Belinda Hankins
Woman Lets Public Cut Her Hair for Powerful Message
Woman Lets Public Cut Her Hair for Powerful Message
Beauty isn't dependent on the external appearance. In this daring street experiment, Jae West co-founder of The Liberators International dives into vulnerability in Times Square, New York City to highlight this powerful message. 
2 min
What People Miss About the Gender Wage Gap
What People Miss About the Gender Wage Gap
It's more complex than women earning 79 cents for every dollar a man makes. When there is talk about the gender wage gap, often the statistic heard is, “Women earn 79 cents for every dollar a man makes.” While this is factually correct, it does not encompass the nuances of...
5 min
Dangerous Women Speak Truth to Power in Patriarchy's Dying Breath
Dangerous Women Speak Truth to Power in Patriarchy's Dying Breath
We are facing an online epidemic of violence against women. Of threats and harassment. We must #ReclaimTheInternet. 
6 min
5 Lies About Abortion Doctors Are Forced to Tell You
5 Lies About Abortion Doctors Are Forced to Tell You
Picture this: you hurt yourself, and you go to the doctor to talk about knee surgery. What would you think if your doctor was required — by law — to tell you that the operation would increase your chance of bone cancer? Or that repairing your torn ligament would increase your...
Meredith Clark
Assumptions About Gender Roles Are Turned Around at School Career Day
Assumptions About Gender Roles Are Turned Around at School Career Day
When a real-life firefighter, surgeon, and fighter pilot drop in on a classroom, these kids have their assumptions turned around.
2 min
Living With Chronic Illness: Your Worth Isn't Dependent on What You Do
Living With Chronic Illness: Your Worth Isn't Dependent on What You Do
I recently spent 4 weeks in hospital. This morning, lying in bed, in severe pain and unable to move, I had a strange feeling of missing hospital. Not the noisy and un-restful clinical environment that being in hospital provides, but the being able to press a buzzer and get...
Amani Omejer
What's Wrong With Being in Someone's "Friend Zone"?
What's Wrong With Being in Someone's "Friend Zone"?
I once read a Dear Abby column responding to a letter from a girl who, as I recall, was in middle school. She was asking for advice about an awkward incident that happened to her at school: a boy asked her out with her peers watching, and she turned him down. She was...
Samuel Granger
Healing a Suicide Attempt: Cartooning My Experience
Healing a Suicide Attempt: Cartooning My Experience
In April 2012, I attempted suicide whilst living in San Francisco. It was - obviously - an incredibly intense time, but in many ways the time that followed the attempt was even more intense than the time that led to it.  The road I walked after my attempt was different to...
Amani Omejer
Precarious Lives: Memorializing Women of Color Who Died After Police Encounters
Precarious Lives: Memorializing Women of Color Who Died After Police Encounters
The editorial staff of Othering & Belonging: Expanding the Circle of Human Concern,
Daisy Rockwell
For Little Girls Inspired by Hillary Clinton
For Little Girls Inspired by Hillary Clinton
As an Indigenous woman who organizes in the hopes that both Black and Brown people might know greater freedom, safety and self determination, I am no fan of electoral politics.
Kelly Hayes
MissMe - This Is the Story of How I Got Broken
MissMe - This Is the Story of How I Got Broken
Street artist MissMe, the Artful Vandal, offers a very personal, very intimate take on the many little hits that broke her and on how she recovered from the one big blow to re-make herself and become the powerhouse that she is today.
15 min
We Already Know How to Reduce Police Racism and Violence
We Already Know How to Reduce Police Racism and Violence
Recent research has shown cities what works. For starters, hire more female police officers.
Kate Stringer
Theresa May Becomes Britain's 2nd Female PM - This Is NOT a Feminist Victory
Theresa May Becomes Britain's 2nd Female PM - This Is NOT a Feminist Victory
Eleanor Penny on all the ways the former Home Secretary has screwed over women.
2 min
Why Has It Taken the Menstrual Cup so Long to Go Mainstream?
Why Has It Taken the Menstrual Cup so Long to Go Mainstream?
Its long, sputtering history tells us that we change what we use only after we change how we think.
Natalie Shure
How to Talk to Little Girls
How to Talk to Little Girls
Top tips for engaging with girls to boost their self-esteem and value their intellect
Lisa Bloom
We Are the Wheels of Justice
We Are the Wheels of Justice
This short film looks at the sport of roller derby and interviews the women of the Rose City Rollers who talk about how it has allowed them to celebrate, love and appreciate their bodies.
7 min
Dear Straight Allies, Please Don't Come to Pride Until You've Understood These 6 Things
Dear Straight Allies, Please Don't Come to Pride Until You've Understood These 6 Things
1. The first Pride was a police riot. We hold Pride each summer to commemorate the Stonewall Riots of 1969. At the time, most states had laws banning LGBT people from assembling in groups. Despite being illegal, the mob opened LGBT bars to profit off of the open...
Meg Ten Eyck
Five Signs You've Found an Evolved Man, and Why You Should Be Scared Sh**Less
Five Signs You've Found an Evolved Man, and Why You Should Be Scared Sh**Less
For all the women looking for an evolved man and all the men trying to live up to the standard.
Scarlet Amor
In the Absence of the Village, Mothers Struggle Most
In the Absence of the Village, Mothers Struggle Most
Dear Mothers, I’m writing you today because I can no longer contain the ache in my gut and fire in my heart over an injustice that you and I are bearing the brunt of.
Beth Berry
Five of the Most Influential Women in the World Today
Five of the Most Influential Women in the World Today
Forbes just released its list of the top 100 most powerful women of 2016. We took a look and picked out the top five women who aren't entrepreneurs or corporate executives.
2 min
Husbandry: a Reclamation of Men's Responsibility to Care
Husbandry: a Reclamation of Men's Responsibility to Care
To stop the economy’s advance towards greed and destruction, we need new metaphors and images that inspire a radically different alternative.
Julie A. Nelson
Why It's Crucial for Women to Heal the Mother Wound
Why It's Crucial for Women to Heal the Mother Wound
The issue at the core of women’s empowerment is the mother wound
Bethany Webster
The Most Dangerous People Always Claim They Want to Protect You From Dangerous People
The Most Dangerous People Always Claim They Want to Protect You From Dangerous People
Content warning: rape, Donald Trump, right-wing extremism.
4 min
Jessica Valenti: My Life as a 'Sex Object'
Jessica Valenti: My Life as a 'Sex Object'
In her teens, strangers flashed her on the subway, teachers asked for hugs and boys joked about her breasts. Should she laugh off a lifetime of objectification – or get angry?
Jessica Valenti